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EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Nichols is on the Case in ‘Alex Cross’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 17, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Minutes after a press conference to promote her newest movie “Alex Cross,” Rachel Nichols is out of her designer duds and back into jeans and a t-shirt, plopped casually on a love seat in a ritzy Beverly Hills hotel. “I love to be comfortable,” she sa [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Stone Makes A Frightening Directorial Debut with ‘Greystone Park’

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|October 17, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and in the case of Sean Stone, son of legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone, that certainly is the case. The 27-year-old, who has appeared as an actor in 13 of his father’s films, including “Salvador” and [...]

Olivia Thirlby Explores the Path of Sexuality in ‘Nobody Walks’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 16, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Olivia Thirlby almost was cast in the acclaimed new HBO series “Girls,” but conflicts with other projects changed all that. Still, the 26-year-old actress hasn’t ruled out eventually guest starring on the series created by her childhood pal Lena Dunha [...]

Matthew Fox Found in ‘Alex Cross’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 16, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—When “Lost” went off the air, Matthew Fox, who played the heroic doctor Jack Shephard, decided to stay out of the limelight for a while. For a year he went home to Oregon and was simply a husband and father. (He has two children with his wife Margheri [...]

Tippi Hedren Reveals a Darker Side of Hitch in ‘The Girl’

Features TV Features By Judy Sloane|October 15, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—In the early ‘60s, Alfred Hitchcock spied Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model, on a TV commercial, and was immediately infatuated with her. He brought the gorgeous blonde to Universal Studios and offered her a seven-year contract. The first movie he [...]

‘Neil Young Journeys’ on DVD

DVD Features Features By Angela Dawson|October 15, 2012 |0

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Some of the hometown landmarks Neil Young recalls during on-the-road segments of this concert documentary may be long gone, but the singer-songwriter himself remains enduringly iconic after nearly a half-century of rocking in the free world. “N [...]

Ben Affleck Wears Many Hats and a Beard for ‘Argo’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 12, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Ben Affleck has gone from leading man to a respected filmmaker the past decade or so. With the success of 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone” and 2010’s “The Town” under his belt, Affleck now tackles a historic drama involving a daring rescue in “Argo.” The 40-ye [...]

Sam Rockwell Plays Another Dangerous Mind in ‘Seven Psychopaths’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 11, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—It’s difficult to steal scenes in a film that boasts famed scenery chewers Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken, yet Sam Rockwell manages to do just that in the dark comedy “Seven Psychopaths.” Rockwell, known for playing offbeat char [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking From his TV Series, Bryan Cranston Goes Undercover in ‘Argo’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|October 9, 2012 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Bryan Cranston has mixed emotions about the upcoming fifth and final season of the critically acclaimed AMC series “Breaking Bad.” Though he will miss his colleagues and playing the drug-dealing schoolteacher Walter White, a role that has earned him t [...]

Mamie Gummer Scrubs Up for New TV Show

News TV Features By Judy Sloane|October 8, 2012 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Mamie Gummer has spent the last few years working constantly in featured roles on stage, screen and television. But in The CW’s new dramady “Emily Owens, M.D.,” which premieres on October 20, she gets to shine in the title role. If she [...]